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July 13, 2008 - Ted Florence, President of Avenza Systems Inc., was interviewed by Jesse Rouse of VerySpatial, an online geospatial news site and information portal, during which he discussed Avenza's current software and data products and plans for an exciting new release centering on Adobe Flash.
All the details of Ted's interview and VerySpatial podcast #156 can be found on the VerySpatial website at www.veryspatial.com.

Toronto, ON, June 12, 2008 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand as well as MAPdataUSA, MAPdataCanada and MAPdataWorld royalty-free GIS data sets, announces the release of Geographic Imager 2.0 for Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3. Geographic Imager 2.0 is the latest version of this powerful software that adds geospatial functionality to Adobe Photoshop.

“Following the success and tremendous reception of the initial Geographic Imager releases we are delighted to follow-up with this much more feature-rich and versatile upgrade, said Doug Smith, Avenza’s Director of Sales. “The scripting and batch processing capabilities alone make this a very worthwhile upgrade for users but overall this is truly a major step forward for Geographic Imager and spatial image processing within Adobe Photoshop,” he added.

- Online groups now open to MAPublisher and Geographic Imager users and evaluators -

Toronto, ON, June 2, 2008 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop is pleased to announce the inception of the Avenza Forums, a set of online message and information groups for all MAPublisher and Geographic Imager users, evaluators and other interested parties.

"We have again upped the ante on providing a comprehensive set of before and after-purchase services to our dedicated customer base around the world.” said Ted Florence, President of Avenza, “The new Avenza forums are a 24-hour a day, 7-day a week online resource from where MAPublisher and Geographic Imager users and other interested parties can collect additional product information and dialog with other users as well as Avenza staff.” he added.

- Leading book and atlas publisher used Avenza’s product in its new, award-winning Atlas of China -

Toronto, ON, April 15, 2008 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop announces that the National Geographic Book Publishing Group in Washington, D.C., has chosen its MAPublisher software for the creation of maps for its newly released Atlas of China.

Multiple MAPublisher fixed and floating licenses have been purchased by the National Geographic Book Publishing Group, along with onsite MAPublisher training for its cartographic designers and technicians.

“MAPublisher played an integral role in the development of our China political map that we produced at 1:6,750,000 for our new Atlas of China. Avenza’s software is smart, powerful, and very effective in manipulating and organizing innumerable types of spatial data for a variety of thematic applications,” said Carl Mehler, Director of Maps for the Book Publishing Group. “The engineers and customer service group at Avenza continue to provide us topnotch support and innovative solutions for our cartographic pursuits. MAPublisher serves as the foundation to our desktop georeferencing applications and map production, and we utilize Avenza’s leading-edge program on a regular basis in our workflow,” he added.

- Powerful mapmaking software for Adobe Illustrator now includes live GPS capabilities -

Toronto, ON, January 22, 2008 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 7.6 for Adobe Illustrator. MAPublisher 7.6 is the latest version of this powerful mapmaking software used to produce high quality maps from GIS data.

MAPublisher 7.6 for Adobe Illustrator is a full product update that is free of charge to all current MAPublisher Maintenance Program subscribers and replaces the current shipping version of MAPublisher, version 7.5, for all new customers using Adobe Illustrator CS2 or CS3.

"Once again, we have responded to the requests of our users by quickly improving on the previous version 7.5 release and including many new functions and feature enhancements,” said Ted Florence, President of Avenza, “The inclusion of live GPS data collection and drawing is a tremendous new built-in feature that we know many users will enjoy and find to be extremely useful.” he added.